Improvement in combined horse-blankets and fly-nets



L. S. CRITTENDEN. COMBINED HORSE-BLANKET AND FLY-NET. No.170,5Z8. Patented Nov. 30, 1875.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

LOUIS GRITTENDEN, 0F ANGELICA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED HORSE-BLANKETS AND FLY-NETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,528, dated November30, 1875; application filed October 20, 1875.

The design of my invention is to combine in one device the advantages of a horse-blanket and fly-net and it consists in the peculiar construction of the combined blanket and flynet, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawing, A represents a horse-blanket, fitted to the shape of the back of a horse, provided with suitable openings 0. and a for the ears of the horse, and other openings to, a, and a for the passage of the tenets and check-rein hook, and having near its rear end and upon its lower side a loop, a, with which to fasten the same to the backstrap of the harness. At a point near the junction of the neck and body portions of the blanket is inserted a transverse strip or section ofelastic web, A, which, when said blanket is in place by yielding, enables its wearer to move the head freely downward without derangement of any portion of said blanket. Around theedge of the blanket A are secured strips of leather, pieces of cord, or other'snitable material, which depend from the same and serve to protect the sides of a horse from flies and other like insects.

The device thus constructed combines in a simple form all of the advantages of a net and blanket, fits easily upon a horse, does not interfere in the slightest degree with the freedom of its head, and does not require removal when the animal is being fed or watered. It also enables the horse to be driven either with or without the use of a check-rein without renv LOUIS S. CRITTENDEN.

Witnesses:

S. S. Nonnrs, M. S. BLAIR. 

